![]() ![]() In person, however, they haven't changed since I first met them for Shaun of the Dead. “He questions everything.”įrost and Pegg have, over the past decade, acquired celebrity chums – Pegg is godfather to Gwyneth and Chris' daughter Apple – and film-making fans like John Landis (who directed Pegg in Burke and Hare and gets name checked in The World's End). “And I liked playing Andy because he sees through all the bullshit,” adds Frost. He's stuck in his teens because he can't go anywhere else." But I liked playing Gary more than either of those characters. "I mean Shaun was a dick and Nick Angel was a dick in Hot Fuzz in their own ways. Pegg and Frost are, I note, playing the least likeable parts of their career. Can they work together to fend off invaders while still managing to knock the pints back? Or will Gary prove too damned annoying and immature? ![]() Gary’s long lost friends – including Frost’s short-fused corporate suit, Andy, a love-struck Paddy Considine, pliable Eddie Marsdan and distracted Martin Freeman – are hoping to make their excuses and leave when they notice that all is not well with their sleepy hometown. “I can’t look at him without wanting to get at it.” “I couldn’t stand that he has a giant blackhead in his ear,” adds Frost. “Everybody knows a Gary King,” notes Pegg, as he and Frost sit down on the Dublin stop of a two-month publicity tour. Once the coolest kid in sixth form, now a sad sack who recites Primal Scream lyrics, Gary rounds up his schoolyard chums for a repeat of the pub crawl they failed to complete twenty years earlier. The World's End pivots around failed recovering alcoholic Gary King (Pegg). There's something different about the characterisation too. Their new picture isn't as defined by movie references as its predecessors: "It's more about the books of John Wyndham and Samuel Youd the science fiction literature of that period," suggests Wright. The World's End stages an alien invasion in a sleepy satellite town. Fuzz transplanted a city super-cop to an English countryside defined by evil ancient custom and curtain twitching. Shaun parachuted zombies into the suburbs. When the chaps get together with their old mucker Mr Wright, many of their best japes come from the juxtaposition of genre tropes and common garden Britishness. There is, nonetheless, a recognisable alchemy in the Cornetto pictures. Frost is currently shooting the dance flick, Cuban Fury, and has taken prominent roles in Snow White and the Huntsman, Attack the Block and Ice Age: Continental Drift.Īs a bicephalic entity, Pegg and Frost have written and starred in the extra-terrestrial comedy Paul and have appeared as Thompson and Thompson in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. Wright has cracked Hollywood with Scott Pilgrim versus The World and turned heads with two former celebrity girlfriends, Anna Kendrick and Ash's Charlotte Hatherley. On his lonesome, Pegg has popped up in two Star Trek movies, two Mission Impossible films and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Between them, the triumvirate behind cult TV sensation Spaced, have scored extraordinary and varied successes, individually and collectively. “The next thing we make may not have any of those things. “They’re all set in the present day and they’re all set in England,” suggests Pegg. Each movie arrives replete with its own set of fun fan-boy references and features all new material. ![]() Instead each instalment boasts a unique set of characters and unfolds in its own little corner of England’s green and pleasant land. As director Edgar Wright points out, the movies are neither sequential nor similar. The films do not – in generic or narrative terms – form a regular trilogy shape. In keeping with this organic theme nobody mapped out the Cornetto Trilogy aka the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy aka the Blood and Ice-Cream Trilogy: "We just ended up with a Cornetto in the second one and had to keep on going," shrugs star Simon Pegg.Īnd so we welcome The World's End, the mint-flavoured full-stop in a series of frozen treats that have previously stretched to strawberry and original blue. We didn't expect them or save up for their college fees but we're delighted to have them around. And then there are surprise trilogies these may also be retro-fitted – it's a defining feature, in fact – but they're more like happy accidents than ad hoc marketing ploys. There are phoney-baloney retro-fitted trilogies like Baz Lurhmann's Red Curtain films. There are planned trilogies like Park Chan-wook's Vengeance sequence. “It wasn’t until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town.Out in the movieverse there are three kinds of trilogy. ![]()
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